As many readers might already know, Yajie Miao, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon’s Language Technology Institute, successfully defended his thesis on “Incorporating Context Information into Deep Neural Network Acoustic Models” in August 2016.
He had accepted a position at Microsoft in Redmond, and was set to start work there in October 2016. It is with a heavy heart that we announce that he died tragically, while visiting his family in China, before he was able to do so.
In fond memory of Yajie and his work, his colleagues and friends at Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft, in consultation with his family, have decided to set up a Memorial Student Travel Grant, which will support additional student travel to Interspeech and other speech conferences in the coming years.
More information on Yajie and the opportunity to support these travel grants can be found at https://www.youcaring.com/iscainternationalspeechcommunicationassociation-815026 .
